Research Interests

What is the acceptable level of risk in society? For which accidental harms should the harmed be compensated? Which accidental harms are private matters where only private funds should be used for compensation, and which accidental harms are public matters where public funds should be used for compensation? What is the proper way to morally justify the answers to these questions? Do the answers to these questions depend on whether one is committed to Rawlsian distributive justice or Dworkinian distributive justice? If so, does either Rawlsian distributive justice or Dworkinian distributive justice become more appealing? More generally, what is the proper relationship of distributive justice and corrective justice?